Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 1993, 7:25 AM CDT for Andrew County, Gentry County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1993, 7:25 AM CDT (12:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1993, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Andrew County, MO, Gentry County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 664 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 609 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 677 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 18.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 051225 FFWMCI MOC003-075-087-051530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 725 AM CDT MON JUL 5 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...ANDREW COUNTY...GENTRY COUNTY...SOUTHERN HOLT COUNTY FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED FOR THESE AREAS AS HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE TO TRACK NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSOURI. UP TO FOUR INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS FALLEN SINCE MIDNIGHT IN THE WARNED AREA. SEVERAL SMALL RIVERS AND CREEKS WERE REPORTED OUT OF THERE BANKS WHICH HAS CAUSED FLOODING OF MANY ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO MOVE TOWARD THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 1000 AM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT1 ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-050845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 245 AM CDT MON JUL 5 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM THIS MONDAY MORNING...AND INCLUDES MUCH OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA AND ST. JOSEPH... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 235 AM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OCCURRING OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI...FROM 10 MILES EAST OF BETHANY...AT INTERSTATE 35...TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARYVILLE...TO 25 MILES EAST OF ST. JOSEPH. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND THEY WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE TO NEAR AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 35...FROM NEAR CAMERON TO NORTH OF TRENTON...BY 310 AM. OTHER NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHERN KANSAS...AND NORTHERN MISSOURI...TO THE NORTH OF A LINE FROM CONCORDIA KANSAS...TO NEAR TOPEKA..TO JUST NORTHWEST OF KIRKSVILLE. ANOTHER BAND OF SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM EAST OF MARSHALL...TO NEAR KIRKSVILLE...IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. ALL PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. IN ADDITION TO STRONG WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE FLOODING RAINS. MOTORISTS THROUGHOUT THE KANSAS CITY AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND BE CAUTIOUS WHEN DRIVING ALONG CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. DESTRI
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:51 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-050845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 245 AM CDT MON JUL 5 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM THIS MONDAY MORNING...AND INCLUDES MUCH OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA AND ST. JOSEPH... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 235 AM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OCCURRING OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI...FROM 10 MILES EAST OF BETHANY...AT INTERSTATE 35...TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARYVILLE...TO 25 MILES EAST OF ST. JOSEPH. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND THEY WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE TO NEAR AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 35...FROM NEAR CAMERON TO NORTH OF TRENTON...BY 310 AM. OTHER NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHERN KANSAS...AND NORTHERN MISSOURI...TO THE NORTH OF A LINE FROM CONCORDIA KANSAS...TO NEAR TOPEKA..TO JUST NORTHWEST OF KIRKSVILLE. ANOTHER BAND OF SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM EAST OF MARSHALL...TO NEAR KIRKSVILLE...IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. ALL PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. IN ADDITION TO STRONG WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE FLOODING RAINS. MOTORISTS THROUGHOrUT THE KANSAS CITY AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND BE CAUTIOUS WHEN DRIVING ALONG CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. DESTRI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 2:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 116 min |
| Jul 5, 3:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, Worth | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Holt | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 10:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt, Nodaway | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Worth | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.